The house had never been this noisy and disorganised even when they hosted banquets themselves.
Atheline had to skip servants running around carrying ceremonial things as they decorated the house.
Some of them would occasionally nod to him as they passed by him too busy to talk unlike normal.
Atheline felt pity for them but he could already imagine how chaotic his own preparations were going to be.
He knew he wasn't going to look at sleep tonight, none of them were.
His gaze went out the window. The eclipse had already started and tomorrow would mark the last day when the moon and the sun fully overlapped for a whole twenty-four hours before it went back to normal.
Atheline pushed open the door to his room and closed it softly behind him.
She wasn't in bed as he had expected. His eyes scanned the surroundings before he noticed her seated on the balcony.
His balcony was large since he used it to plant things that fascinated him.
